text your US postal address
to (520) 200-2223 and get a text back with your

STATE & FEDERAL
legislative rep phone numbers.

The
Affordable Care Act (ACA) not only insures more than 20 million more
Americans. It also is a driver of economic growth, helping the health care
sector to add an average of 31,000 to 39,000 jobs per month. The
Republican health care bill could kill nearly one million jobs by 2026,
and the ripple effects could slow the entire economy. Let’s share this
story on social media, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-risk-from-obamacare-repeal-no-one-is-talking-about-jobs-2017-06-28 ,
and let’s tell our MoCs that this is yet another reason why we oppose the
Republican bill.

Until
the Russian investigation is over Trump should not be having any private
meetings with Putin. It's apparent from this news article that he still
wants to please Putin and cares little for what our country wants in
regard to Russia. "President Donald Trump has asked National Security
Council staff to come up with "deliverables" that he can offer
to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting on the sidelines
of the G-20 summit in Germany next week,
TheThursday. The news comes on the heels of a report
published by The Associated Press last week that said Trump had been
pushing for a full bilateral meeting with Putin rather than just an
informal "pull-aside" on the sidelines of the G-20 summit."http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-putin-meeting-sanctions-russia-2017-6The White
House is not commenting. The sanctions need to stay in place and we should
not be offering "deliverables" to Putin. Let's tell the White
House and Congress and the National Security Council no to any ”gifts"
for Putin.

The
federal Election Assistance Commission helps states improve their voting
systems, addressing issues like cybersecurity and poll-worker training.
The GOP would like to scrap the agency, and it is slated to be defunded by
the end of 2018. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) has introduced an amendment to
HR 115 (the Financial Services Appropriation Bill) to appropriate $9.2
million to fund it. In this time of cyberattacks, Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential election claims by Trump that the election was
rigged, voter suppression, and more, an agency that helps to strengthen
our voting systems sounds like a good idea. http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/340143-house-dem-seeks-to-restore-funding-to-the-election-assistance-commission
Let’s tell our MoCs to support the Quigley amendment.

-While
we are distracted by Trumpcare and the meaning of “bona fide”
relationships among immigrants, Mitch McConnell is fast-tracking S 1460,
the “Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017,” ironically, in the name of
bipartisanship: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/340097-senators-introduce-new-bipartisan-energy-bill
Food & Water Watch warns us that this bill would lock in our
dependence on fossil fuels, undermine efforts to stave off the worst
effects of climate change, speed approval of exports of liquefied natural
gas, give FERC new authority to approve pipelines, authorize millions to
explore for methane hydrates. The "Renewables" section of the
bill doesn't mention solar or wind energy. A nearly identical
version of this bill passed the Senate (though not the House) last year
with 85 votes. Before the end of the current recess, let’s ask about
this bill at town meeting AND tell Chuck Schumer—202-224-6542—that
we’re counting on Democrats to oppose this, or any, dirty energy bill.

On Thursday,
the House passed two laws—“Kate’s Law” and the “No Sanctuary for Criminals
Act”—the first, designed to increase prison sentences meted out to
undocumented immigrants who reenter the US illegally and the second, to
withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities: Opponents have called
“Kate’s Law” an effort to stoke fear of immigrants, despite the lack of
evidence that undocumented immigrants commit more crimes than others;
despite Republican claims that sanctuary policies endanger “the entire
U.S.,” a University of California analysis of federal data found that
sanctuary cities were in fact safer than non-sanctuary ones: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/house-immigration-crackdown-n778141
The fate of these bills in the Senate is uncertain, but given current
anti-immigrant rhetoric, we should make sure our senators staunchly oppose
their passage. Let's contact our
senators and let them know that we want them to oppose these attacks on
immigrants https://5calls.org/issue/reckGd5UvIShAViX9

The
Tax March team and Stand Up America are working together to launch an
"Email Orrin" campaign http://bit.ly/2soQP36 Senator
Hatch is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and has recently
asked for input from stakeholders on tax reform. To help inform our
feedback, Five Thirty Eight has some helpful ideas
on what the Republican plan could look like: http://53eig.ht/2ttwkSd Let's tell
Senator Hatch how we feel about tax reform and tax cuts for the wealthy;
we can e-mail and/or send a tweet directly from the Tax March
website http://taxmarch.org/emailorrin/

The
travel ban has gone into effect, and the State Department has an
incredibly limited scope of who will be allowed into the country based on
which family members count as having a "bona fide
relationship" http://bit.ly/2t4N0NI Let's
give the State Department a call and tell them to broaden their definition
of "close family members": https://5calls.org/issue/recSc5YHT1dukbJF1

On July 12th,
numerous websites, including Amazon, Etsy, Netflix, Reddit, and Twitter,
will be participating in the Internet-Wide Day of Action to fight back
against the FCC's attack on net neutrality. Those of us with web pages can
participate by embedding one of the sample alert modals into the header of
our websites https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/?org=dp In
the meantime, we can also use Battle For the Net to send a letter to the
FCC and share our thoughts on net neutrality https://www.battleforthenet.com/

Resolutions
have been introduced in both the House and Senate to recognize June as
LGBTQ Pride Month http://bit.ly/2ur6HyI Let's
call our MoC and ask that they support H.Res. 419 and S.Res. 212.

From
RISE Stronger: RISE Stronger works at the national,
state, and municipal levels. Our State Chapters approach the work of civic
and political engagement from the ground up, starting in communities
around the country. RISE Stronger's state chapters are building a dialogue
by discussing practical solutions to real problems, providing support to
civic organizations, working collaboratively with other like-minded
grassroots organizations, and engaging state legislators and local
governments. We hope you'll join us - get involved, roll up your sleeves,
and get to work to build the communities we need, want, and deserve!https://risestronger.org/state_chapters

Other Actions

On Thursday evening, a number of protesters
with "ADAPT, a Colorado-born organization that works
nationally to promote disability rights," were arrested by police in
Senator Cory Gardner's office, where they had been staging a sit-in since
Tuesday morning. While the Senator has met with the group several
times over the past year and a half to discuss the retention of Medicaid,
it is unsurprising that, given GOP behavior over the past two weeks, the
group would feel that they had not been listened to. We can do two things
to support their action: 1) share this Denver Post article on social media
to encourage this key senator to vote NO on the Republican healthcare
bill, http://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/29/cory-gardner-office-protest-removal/ and
2) support ADAPT with a contribution, here: http://adapt.org/donate/

Petitions

From
one of our own: Under Trump's
proposed budget all long distance Amtrak passenger train services would
lose federal support and could be discontinued. The national passenger
train network would be destroyed. It would no longer be possible to cross the
United States by train. And I depend on Amtrak several
times a year to be with my family and sometimes to travel for work. The amount of federal support for these
Amtrak services is very small compared to the rest of the federal budget.
Many more tax dollars are spent in
supporting the White House fleet of airplanes than is spent on the entire
Amtrak budget. For more information on this issue go the the website of
the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) at https://www.narprail.org/ Let’s
help save this vital transportation source: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-amtrak-3.fb48

This
week’s United States of Resistance: “This
Independence Day, let us remember: "Liberty has never come from the
government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history
of liberty is a history of resistance." -Woodrow Wilson “https://www.risestronger.org/newsroom/historyofliberty

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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..